I had the pleasure of attending award winning author MJ Hyland\u2019s fiction workshop in the Irish Writers\u2019 Centre at the weekend. She\u2019s a fascinating speaker, the day passed in a flash, even with the water protesters screaming outside.<\/p>\n
She went through some great exercises on developing your style through studying other authors as well as knowing yourself. Came away with some interesting thoughts around the characters in my novel and a very long reading list. Two things to particularly recommend: http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews<\/a> and the fiction podcasts on the New Yorker http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/podcasts<\/a>, great authors read other stories previously published and explain what\u2019s great about it.<\/p>\n Worth missing the greatest day in the history of six nations rugby? Well, I still have that to watch on the recorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had the pleasure of attending award winning author MJ Hyland\u2019s fiction workshop in the Irish Writers\u2019 Centre at the weekend. She\u2019s a fascinating speaker, the day passed in a flash, even with the water protesters screaming outside. She went through some great exercises on developing your style through studying other authors as well as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phjJjS-2Z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/440839-110804-mj-hyland.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kieranmarsh.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}